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Police must enforce new safety law
While training, education and enforcement are vital, they are only one part of an equation that must also include punishment for those who flout the law. Since 2004, a Criminal Code provision known as the Westray Bill has been on the books,
Updated: 01/06/2012 12:05A
New initiatives announced for new legal year
Association to provide pro-bono expert assistants to needy accused persons. Mr Menon also added that a revised framework for plea bargaining is being tabled to the Law Society and the Association of Criminal Lawyers of Singapore for discussion.
Updated: 01/05/2012 11:41P
NJ school board members' criminal background check due date passes; not all
| AP NEWARK — More than 350 local school board members in New Jersey face losing their jobs or even going to jail for not completing a criminal background check required under a new law. Board members were required to complete the background check by
Updated: 01/05/2012 11:38P
No more envelopes under the table
In March 1999, the Howard government amended the Commonwealth Criminal Code to include the offence of bribing a foreign public official. In relation to the facilitation payments, the government said: “Small payments are something left for local
Updated: 01/05/2012 10:47P
Asylum seekers should not be treated like criminals, expert says
By Tara Carman, Postmedia News January 5, 2012 VANCOUVER - Asylum seekers are not criminals and BC is flouting international law by treating them as such, according to a report prepared for the United Nations' refugee agency. Detained refugees in the
Updated: 01/05/2012 10:17P
$1 Million Funding Available for Haiti Criminal Law Training Programs
6 -- The US State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs has announced that it expects to award discretionary grants to qualified organizations for implementing a criminal law training program in Haiti.
Updated: 01/05/2012 09:58P
SC slams casual preventive arrest of crime accused
The top court said though the state is empowered to curb certain rights under criminal laws and the preventive rules, it must exercise this power “with due caution as well as upon a proper appreciation of the facts”.
Updated: 01/05/2012 09:35P
Charter Tech founder seeks expungement, return to board of trustees
But when a new law requiring all school board members and charter school trustees to undergo criminal background checks was implemented last year, the arrest turned up on his record, disqualifying him from serving on the board.
Updated: 01/05/2012 09:08P
NJ school board members didn't do background check
AP More than 350 local school board members in New Jersey face losing their jobs or even going to jail for not completing a criminal background check required under a new law. Board members were required to complete the background check by Dec. 31.
Updated: 01/05/2012 09:07P
Mongolia takes 'vital step forward' in abolishing the death penalty
The death penalty remains part of the law in Mongolia until the Mongolian parliament removes provisions in national legislation that still retain the death penalty. The Mongolian Criminal Code currently provides for the application of the death penalty
Updated: 01/05/2012 08:56P
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